Hagar (Bible)

HAGAR SHEZAF, A 20-YEAR-OLD ISRAELI HUMAN rights activist, found herself in Tahrir Square at the start of the riots in Egypt. Interviewed on IDF…

Despite having a couple of king-sized bees in his bonnet, David Shemer is a happy man. “I do what I love, so I’m not complaining but I think the…

Is recycling cost effective? Does it even matter if it is or isn’t? Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Macro Center for Political Economics organized a…

HOW IRONIC THAT THE portion named for Sarah – the only one named for a woman – refers to her life but mentions only her death. I would like to think…

THE PASSAGE IS ALWAYS SHOCKING. I READ IT IN synagogue not two months ago, at Rosh Hashana, and I will read it again this week, as I have read it or…

In my ministry among Palestinian Arabs, they express passionate feelings of disinheritance and injustice. How can we respond to such a personal and…

THE ABRAHAMIC revolution was that man may love and cherish his Maker, be guided and no longer afraid. How did this come about? What was the essence…

Joseph, despite his brothers' callous behavior in casting him into a pit, despite having been sold into Egyptian enslavement, and despite Mrs.…

The question which begs to be asked as we begin the stories of Jacob - the most fully described of the patriarchs - is why his father, Isaac, favored…

One of the most difficult stories of the Bible - and certainly the complex highlight of Vayera - is the "binding" (and near slaughter) of Isaac, but…

In the Book of Genesis, the relationship between two wives of the same man is never an easy one; indeed, the Talmud (Tractate Yebamot) calls the…

Jerusalem Baroque OrchestraAlessandro Scarlatti: Hagar and IsmaelYMCA AuditoriumNovember 13The season's opening of the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra,…

As Abraham, the path-breaking founder of a new nation and religion, passes from the scene, it falls to his heir Isaac to establish continuity of…

"It is no wonder that irreligious soldiers die in war" said Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Saturday night in a botched attempt to encourage Jewish soldiers to…

Tuesday, August 14THE SULHA Peace Project will hold its sixth annual "On the way to Sulha" gathering of Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians who…

There was little competition at the Wolgin Awards of the 24th Jerusalem Film Festival, which were announced on Saturday night - at least not in the…

Photographer Adi Nes is a secular gay man with graying eyebrows and a habit of quoting the Bible when talking about his work. The son of immigrants…

'I can't sleep. I find myself once again writing to my virtual support group at a crazy hour. I take comfort in the knowledge that I am not alone in…

There seems to be little question as to why Sarai offered her maid Hagar, an Egyptian slave, to her husband Abram as a surrogate wife. Was this just…

"And it happened after these things, and the Lord tested [or proved, or held aloft as a banner or example] Abraham, and said unto him, 'Abraham,' and…